It is definitely HALOish in it's graffics, much more to explore though. Yeah, I do like the improvements over HALO but I am still more than dissatisfied with bumping into other gamers while playing. I am sad about that. I made it half way through level 4, went back to do some 'exploring' and did my very best to avoid other gamers. It did not take me long before I was avoiding whole areas that I wanted to explore because others were there exploring too. One team of two were level 13 and 14, I have to wonder what challenges they were having in an area set up to challenge those who were level 3-4. Those gamers I was unable to avoid were pleasant enough in that they waved at me, I would have waved back had I a clue as to how to do so, I suspect they all thought me stuck-up or something.
I dunno, for those gamers who loved to play in those co-op HALO matches, (they are legion btw), DESTINY should be pretty cool. For me, I am pretty much disenchanted with the game. Out of curiosity I still want to see what the moon has to offer now that I can go there but if it is more of the same I will go back to an old tried and true game Fallout 3. At least on that post apocalyptic Earth I can turn the music on or off when I want to.